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Benjamin Franklin: (1706-1790) American statesman...

March 26, 2000

Benjamin Franklin: (1706-1790) American statesman, diplomat, author, inventor and scientist who was the first to establish the link between volcanic eruptions and climatic cooling when he suggested the bitterly cold winter of 1783-84 in Europe was a result of the dust cloud from a massive eruption of Iceland's Mt. Laki in 1783.